ABSTRACT
This chapter offers practical ideas on how to plan and adapt listening tasks that build on the theoretical perspectives and pedagogical guidelines in the last two chapters. The chapter provides guidelines and examples of techniques that teachers, material writers, and curriculum designers can adopt and adapt for enhancing listening instruction. It covers: (a) Instructional activities that promote listening skills for communication, metacognitive knowledge and skills, and decoding/lexical segmentation skills; (b) planning lessons and units of learning for listening; and (c) techniques for assessing of listening proficiency and assessing listening for learner development.
